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Mechanical Engineering applies principles of mechanics, the study of heat and energy, an understanding of material behavior, and the application of design principles to create products and systems beneficial to society. The study of mechanical engineering is fundamental to all engineering disciplines. The major is broad-based, encompassing applications in many areas of engineering. After completing the mechanical engineering program at the Naval Academy, one can study the structural mechanics of ships and aircraft, investigate the performance of gas turbine engines, understand the conversion of nuclear energy to power and develop advanced systems such as electromagnetic rail guns and directed energy weapons.
After taking fundamental courses in solid and fluid mechanics, materials, thermodynamics, heat transfer and design, a mechanical engineering major chooses elective courses to concentrate in one of three areas: energy and propulsion, structures and materials or nuclear energy. The major culminates with a capstone design experience in the first class year that provides midshipmen with a relevant, practical opportunity incorporating what they have learned into a single project. The program takes seriously the need to develop graduates who have a sound understanding of the design process and its importance in the success of engineering activities. Each capstone team is expected to design, build and test a mechanical system.
Laboratories and testing facilities dedicated to the mechanical engineering curriculum are numerous and varied. They include a subcritical nuclear reactor and engine testing facilities as well as materials, heat transfer, directed energy and a fluids laboratory. Capstone projects have included building an electromagnetic railgun , formula-style race car, hybrid fuel vehicle, human powered vehicles, interservice competitions focused on developing novel combat equipment and projects that help veterans overcome physical challenges.
The mechanical engineering program prepares its graduates to assume responsibilities in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps which involve the operation and maintenance of highly technical systems. With a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, a Navy or Marine Corps officer is well prepared for a wide variety of career assignments both ashore and afloat. Operational sea billets in surface ships, submarines, and aircraft squadrons provide a wealth of opportunities for a mechanical engineer to develop practical engineering experience. The knowledge and skills of those with a background in mechanical engineering are in demand in naval service and civilian life.
Considerations for those who might be interested in this major
As a student of mechanical engineering, learning will primarily take place via active problem-solving. Therefore, application and practice of analytical skills will be conducted in the classroom and laboratory. Written and oral communication skills are essential elements of engineering practice and are emphasized throughout the program. Computer programming skills will be employed to analyze and report data. Successful and satisfied mechanical engineering majors are often those that have a desire to understand how things work and how they can make them work better. In addition, a mechanical engineer must understand the mathematical and physical relationships that underlie engineering analysis and design.
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September 19 could be the day that HTC answers the Samsung's Galaxy Note 2 with a 5-inch supersize smartphone of its own.
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Research from The Cancer Institute of New Jersey shows that an ultra-shortened, accelerated breast irradiation treatment using a balloon device is both logistically achievable and tolerable. The work will be offered during a poster presentation at the 35th Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium this week.
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey is a Center of Excellence of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS).
Conventional courses of radiation treatment following breast cancer surgery commonly run for seven to eight weeks. There is reason to believe that patient comfort and convenience can be enhanced if the course of therapy is compressed into a single week, or less, with multiple treatments administered each day. This approach is known as Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI). Investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey are now in the process of examining three such dosing schedules, delivered post-surgery in shorter courses than are commonly administered with APBI.
The investigators have now followed, for a minimum of six months, participants who received the first of those dosing schedules. This first cohort consisted of women 50 or older who were treated with four doses of 7 Gy (units of energy) twice daily through a catheter tube device that is inserted into the breast. The device, which delivers a radioactive seed to the affected area during each dose, has multiple treatment channels for the seed to travel in, ensuring a more precise target. The device remains in the breast for two days until the course is complete. Participants had one invasive distinct tumor no larger than three centimeters that was surgically removed with no evidence of cancer cells on the outermost tissue, and with negative lymph nodes and positive hormone receptors.
What researchers found was that they were able to deliver this treatment while observing very strict restrictions on the doses to the skin and underlying ribs. Toxicities were minor and resolved with follow-up or minimal intervention. One breast infection occurred and was treated. Two cases of symptomatic fat necrosis and two cases of symptomatic seromas occurred. No acute toxicities greater than grade two on the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events scale were observed.
While full results of the study await administration and evaluation of the second and third short-course regimens, the portion of the trial completed to date has allowed investigators to make comparisons between results from the initial cohort and a recently unveiled European approach that delivers a single dose of radiation at the time of breast surgery while women are still under anesthesia. While that approach has been found to be safe, it has stirred debate over what some consider to be a very serious potential drawback -- that complete information on the tumor status is not available at the time of radiation because the pathology has not been reviewed.
The lead author of the current research, Atif J. Khan, MD, a radiation oncologist at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and assistant professor of radiation oncology at RWJMS, says the post-surgery course of progressive APBI therapy that his team is describing at the San Antonio symposium appears to eliminate that uncertainty in an acceptable way.
"Our findings indicate that ultra-short courses of APBI with novel dosing levels can be logistically achieved and are well-tolerated," says Dr. Kahn. He adds, "While further study is needed, this important research offers women an abbreviated course of radiotherapy without the drawbacks of the single-dose intraoperative European approach."
Cancer Institute of New Jersey investigators have opened the next phase of study, evaluating a three-dose schedule of 8.25 Gy over two days. The aim is to reach a 10.25 Gy unit dose over a two-day period.
Along with Dr. Khan, other investigators include: Frank A. Vicini, MD, Michigan Healthcare Professionals, Farmington Hills, MI; Sheree Brown, MD, Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, Marietta, GA; Bruce G. Haffty, MD, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and RWJMS; Thomas Kearney, MD, FACS, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and RWJMS; Roger Dale, PhD, Imperial College, London, UK; and Douglas W. Arthur, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Massey Cancer Center, Richmond, VA.
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I just finished another book from the American Library Association Notable Books list, "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" by Steve Coll.
I enjoyed reading it (which surprised me a little), and learned a lot about the recent history of Saudi Arabia.
Coll describes Osama Bin Laden's story, but takes pains to provide a broad picture of the family. He begins by tracing Mohamed Bin Laden's beginnings as a humble Yemeni, growing a remarkable fortune due to his savvy leadership of his construction firm. Mohamed's children include Osama, but Coll spends possibly more time describing the older "first among equals" of that generation who were expected to take leadership of the family business and fortune. The family remains closely allied to the Saudi royal family. The modern history of Saudi Arabia shapes the fortune of the Bin Ladens.
I enjoyed Coll's skill at describing the various personalities, and placing them into context. He explores the differences between male and female roles, as well as the range of experiences that people have with the West. Many Bin Laden sons and daughters were educated in America and Europe, and many live at least part of the time outside of Saudi Arabia.
I redrew the mental picture that I had of Osama Bin Laden going into this book. Coll shows how the prominent Bin Laden family distanced itself from Osama, essentially disowning him, using the courts to demonstrate their lack of financial support for him and his work.
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Argument preview: How open are public records?
on Feb 18, 2013 at 12:03 am
On Wednesday, after the 10 a.m. release of opinions, the Supreme Court will hold one hour of oral argument on a case testing states' power to restrict public access to the records of their government agencies. Arguing in McBurney v. Young (docket 12-17), on the side of challengers to a Virginia law, will be Deepak Gupta of the Washington law firm of Gupta Beck PLLC. Representing Virginia will be its state Solicitor General, Earle Duncan Getchell, Jr.
When the Founders gathered in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to draft the Constitution, one of their worries was that the thirteen states then in existence had been jealously guarding their own residents' rights and opportunities and putting up barriers to the free flow of citizens and commerce across state lines. The states were not supposed to do that, under the terms of the existing government structure: the Articles of Confederation. That document did guarantee that all of the Americans at the time would enjoy the "privileges and immunities" available in each state. However, that went almost entirely unenforced, because of the weakness of the Articles and the strident independence of the states.
So, James Madison pressed hard for a reaffirmation of the "privileges and immunities" clause in the new Constitution's Article IV, limiting states' powers while also protecting some of them. Although the full meaning of the "privileges and immunities" clause has never been spelled out by the Supreme Court, the idea behind it is generally understood to be essential to the creation of a "common market'"among the American states. Its importance has grown as the intensifying mobility of Americans has led them to migrate from state to state, conducting business and other aspects of their modern lives, often doing so at long distance.
Today, American commerce, medicine, journalism and a host of other pursuits rely upon the openness of the digital channels of information, the electronic exchange of data. With that in the background, the Supreme Court is set to issue what may turn out to be a historic ruling on that flow of data, when the Justices examine access to public records under state law and whether the "privileges and immunities" clause puts some restrictions on states' control of that access. The Court also is studying whether the Constitution's Commerce Clause, too, restricts that power.
Under the "privileges and immunities" clause, a court first determines whether a state law burdens rights or activities that are basic "to the livelihood of the nation." Then, if it answers that question yes, it decides whether discrimination that occurs under a state law can be justified by a substantial interest of the state. Under the Commerce Clause, Congress has broad authority to pass laws regulating trade and commerce among the states, but the courts have found "dormant" within that Clause a ban on states' discrimination against interstate commercial activity by treating its own residents more favorably than outsiders.
At the center of the new case before the Court are state "freedom of information" (FOI) or "open records" laws. At one time, at least ten states had FOI laws that restricted access to their agencies' public records to citizens of their own state. Seven of those states have since repealed those limitations. Now, according to critics of such laws, only the states of Arkansas, Tennessee, and Virginia continue to enforce their laws. Virginia's law is the one at issue in McBurney v. Young, now before the Court.
Under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, which dates from 1968, the right to inspect and copy public records is limited to "any citizens of the Commonwealth." At one time, citizens seeking access had to show a "personal or legal interest" in the records, but that was taken out of the law in 1974. Newspapers and magazines that circulate in the state and radio and TV stations located in the state or broadcasting into it from elsewhere are also assured of access. The state law only applies, the state has argued, to non-judicial records; court records are open to all, including real estate titles, tax files, and court judgment files. As is true of many open-records laws, the Virginia law requires those seeking access to pay fees to cover the actual cost of search and copying.
That law was challenged in federal court by Mark J. McBurney, a former Virginian who now lives in Rhode Island, and by Roger W. Hurlbert, a Californian.
After McBurney's former wife allegedly defaulted on an obligation to provide support for their son, he asked the Virginia child support enforcement agency to seek support payments from the boy's mother while McBurney was living in Australia. The agency did file that petition. Believing that the agency was not pursuing the matter diligently, he asked for all records dealing with the child support arrangement between him and his wife. The request was denied because he did not live in Virginia any longer. Later, he sent another request for records about the same dispute. He ultimately did obtain some records, but not all that he had sought.
Hurlbert operates a small California company, Sage Information Services, that obtains public records from real-property assessment officials on behalf of his clients. He usually obtains those records through state FOI laws. In 2008, a client hired Hurlbert to obtain tax documents from Virginia's Henrico County. Hurlbert's request was turned down because he was not a Virginia citizen. Hurlbert claims that he has since ceased any efforts to get Virginia records, and that this has cost him some business.
The two men joined in a lawsuit to challenge the citizens-only provision, claiming violations of both the "privileges and immunities" clause and the Commerce Clause. When the case reached the Fourth Circuit Court, it ruled that the privileges clause did not even apply, because access to public records is not the kind of activity that bears upon the vitality of America as a single unit. The two applicants, it found, were seeking only records of importance to them personally. On the Commerce Clause challenge, the Circuit Court concluded that the law did not bar Hurlbert from doing business in the state, since it restricted only one method of carrying out his business.
The two men then took their case to the Supreme Court.
Petition for certiorari
Arguing that America now has a "burgeoning marketplace for public records," McBurney and Hurlbert raised the single issue of whether a ban on access aimed at non-residents violates the two provisions of the Constitution. The petition noted that the Supreme Court "has not grappled with" the meaning of the privileges clause "for decades," and it argued that this case provided an opportunity to provide some clarity. In addition, it contended that there is a direct split between the courts of appeals on the specific issue of a state's exclusion of non-residents from access to public records
On the Commerce Clause argument, the petition said that the Fourth Circuit also created a conflict among lower courts in its ruling that the Virginia law does not discriminate against commerce, as such. The Supreme Court itself, according to the filing, had ruled that releasing public information into commerce makes it an "article of commerce."
The petition, although conceding that out-of-state seekers of records could hire an in-state proxy to go after the records for them, argued that this imposes on the non-residents an additional cost that Virginia's residents do not have to pay. That, alone, places citizens on unequal footing, depending solely upon where they live, the two men contended.
On the "common market" theory of equal access to residents and non-residents alike, the petition catalogued the kinds of activities that mobile Americans now undertake that depend, as they move and work across state laws, upon quick access to the data in state government files. The filing contended that "the procurement, compilation, and publication of public records is a major industry," operating across America, and yet the effect of laws like Virginia's "is to deny non-citizens the ability to pursue that business within Virginia on equal footing."
Open access to records, the two men also argued, is of fundamental importance to "real democracy."
The petition drew the support of a wide array of news organizations and other gatherers and purveyors of information through databases and other channels.
Virginia officials initially waived their right to answer the petition, but the Court then asked for a response last July 30.
The response urged the Court not to hear the case, arguing — as the Fourth Circuit had concluded — that access to a state's public records is not the kind of activity that is protected under the privileges clause. "No Court of Appeals, or any other court, it would appear, has held that a non-resident is entitled to commandeer another state's officials into providing them copies of state public documents in response to a non-resident's request where the documents are sought to obtain information of a personal import."
The state's brief dismissed McBurney as a record-seeker who wanted only to enlist Virginia officials on his side of a legal dispute, and Hurlbert as a businessman who would, at most, feel some burden on one means of pursuing his economic interests. To bring either of them under the privileges clause, the state contended, would be to "break new ground."
As to the challengers' contention that there is now a split among the circuits, the state contended that this is not a "deep or mature conflict." The Third Circuit ruling that the two men claim conflicts with the Fourth Circuit decision in their case, the brief said, involved a non-citizen's right to public documents for use in a "political process on matters of national political and economic importance" — that is, a journalist's investigative reporting on misconduct by financial institutions. What McBurney and Hurlbert seek, the reply argued, is "a far cry" from the pursuit that was before the Third Circuit.
On the Commerce Clause side of the case, Virginia argued that the Fourth Circuit was right in concluding that a state's freedom-of-information law "is not a regulation of interstate commerce at all." But, even if it were such a regulation, according to the state, Virginia is entitled to operate as "a market participant" and in that role is free to choose with whom it will deal, and on what terms.
Briefs on the merits
The two challengers' merits brief opened with two dominant themes: the role of public records as "the raw material" in the information age "for a robust national market," and the historic pedigree of the two specific kinds of records that the two men were seeking: records of public proceedings (McBurney) ,and real property records (Hurlbert). The first theme was designed to make more vivid the "common market" argument, and the second to counter the state's attempt to belittle the social significance of the information the two men were pursuing.
On the first, the brief argued: "From dusty ledgers in rural courthouses to centralized computer servers, public records from all 50 states are gathered, sold, aggregated, mined and resold for countless purposes…It is no exaggeration to say that the free flow of this information across state lines helps constitute our Nation as one."
In discussing the historic background of public access, the brief puts real property records first, even though all the briefs list Hurlbert as the second party, after McBurney (by custom, the case will always be known by McBurney's name). There is no obvious explanation for that switch, but it may have been done because keeping records of property transactions was unique to the American colonies, while records of public proceedings reach back into English history, to at least the reign of Edward III in the fourteenth century. That might well give the brief, in its opening pages, a more direct link to the Founders. Not by coincidence, moreover, the discussion of "the American recording system's origins" is traced to Virginia, and its Jamestown settlement, thus seeking to put to shame the modern Virginia's limitation on access to such documents.
The challengers' brief devotes six of its opening pages to this history before turning to the facts. The factual recital, too, puts Roger Hurlbert's situation first. It is clear by now that the brief's writers believe that puts forward their best scenario.
When the brief turns to legal argument, it has an unheralded addition, not part of the question the Court has agreed to hear. Besides arguing the privileges and Commerce clauses, the brief also discusses a claim that Virginia's limitation on access to records violates the Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause. Those three provisions, the brief summed up, represent the effort of the Founders "to end the favoritism that had plagued the Articles of Confederation and instead 'fuse into one Nation a collection of independent, sovereign States,'" quoting from a 1948 Supreme Court ruling.
The brief presented the Commerce Clause arguments first, claiming that even Virginia had conceded that its records access law discriminates against non-Virginians "on its face." In going over the business-related argument, the brief suggested that Virginia was, in fact, seeking to "divert work to Virginians that might be carried out more efficiently by non-Virginians," thus accomplishing a stifling of competition, causing a rise in prices, and leading to "economic Balkanization – the very effects the Framers sought to avoid."
The argument on the privileges clause focuses on the Constitution's veneration of property rights, treating the discriminatory access to public real estate records as denying non-Virginians the opportunity to secure their property rights and thus to allow them to engage in acquiring and enjoying property.
The defense of McBurney's right to be on an equal footing in obtaining public proceeding records is based in the brief on the concept of a transparent and open government. But this branch of the brief suggested that McBurney's property rights were at risk, as Hurlbert's are, because denying access to child support records "burdens his right to enforce debts on equal terms."
The Full Faith and Credit Clause argument is keyed in the brief to a belief among the Founders that "the movement of public records across state lines was 'fundamental to the promotion of interstate harmony'" – quoting a 1978 Supreme Court decision.
The brief is wrapped up with an argument against a claim by Virginia that giving non-Virginians access to information would reduce resources available for Virginians. Non-Virginians, like those who live in the state, would pay the same costs as residents for the retrieval of records they seek, the brief noted. And, the document added, giving outsiders access to copies of Virginia records would not deplete those records as a resource, in a way that giving outsiders access to limited natural resources in the state might.
Virginia's brief on the merits opened with a suggestion that, in fact, non-Virginians seeking access to public records of state agencies would not be paying equally with residents. Outsiders only pay for the cost of search and copying, while the taxpayers of Virginia in addition must cover "the general costs associated with creating or maintaining records" or the costs of carrying on the public agencies' business that is reflected in those records.
Next, the brief turned to a reiteration of the factual argument that McBurney and Hurlbert were denied access only to records "they deem useful to their personal interests."
In addressing the constitutional claims, the state's brief asserted that McBurney had no privileges clause claim because he was not being denied access to Virginia's courts, but rather was only being denied an opportunity to turn the privileges clause into "a mechanism for pre-lawsuit discovery."
As to Hurlbert, nothing prohibits him, the state's brief reiterated, "from a common calling." At most, he is being denied one mode of pursuing his business interests in real property transactions.
Both men, the document said, were seeking to have the Court recognize for the first time a "generic right" to "pursue their economic interests on equal footing." Echoing the finding of the Fourth Circuit, the brief said that, if there is any such right under the privileges clause, it is not offended by Virginia's law.
The brief dismissed the recitation in the McBurney-Hurlbert brief of the history of recording titles as "entirely beside the point," noting that those records are expressly exempted from the non-citizens bar in the state law, so anyone can access them from a remote connection. Hurlbert was not seeking those records, but rather real estate tax assessment files. it said. McBurney was not seeking records of court proceedings, but general policy information about how a state agency handles child support cases. McBurney, it added, could get the information he wanted from the agency's website.
The state defended its freedom-of-information law as having particular value to Virginians as a class, because it was passed "to enhance political participation in a state's polity." Moreover, the brief said, this was a law of "recent vintage," thus presumably making the McBurney-Hurlbert recitation of lengthy history under the privileges clause seem irrelevant.
Similarly, the state's argument under the Commerce Clause was that the state was not regulating commerce at all in the statute, but only "the provision of a state service that furthers political participation." That, it suggested, is what a state does – "serve the citizens of the state."
As at the petition stage, the McBurney-Hurlbert side is supported by a variety of media organizations and trade groups representing database and other information aggregating companies. Other amici are civil liberties groups, and advocacy organizations pursuing libertarian causes.
The state drew the support of associations of state legislatures and governments at state and local levels, as well as a number of Virginia municipal and school board organizations.
The outcome of this case probably depends predominantly on whether the Justices see it as a historic test of national economic consequences, with philosophical roots going back to the Founding, or as a mine-run test of a state's power to make itself transparent and accountable to its own political constituency, when it is confronted by outsiders pursuing selfish interests. That is the vivid alternative that the briefs lay before the Court.
The record-seekers have done all that they probably could to portray themselves as victims of a narrow protectionist state that is living today in an Articles of Confederation time capsule. And, knowing that this is a Court that sees itself as the special guardian of America's founding ideas in their original form, they have wrapped their case fully in basic constitutional principles.
Virginia has made a concentrated effort to pare down the significance of this controversy, by suggesting that the case has very little to do with grand constitutional principle – other than serving a state's own democratic polity – and perhaps has even less to do with commercial dealings that span the nation.
If the Court were inclined to reach a minimalist decision, Virginia offers it the easiest option. But this may well be a case that the Court accepted for review with a grander vision, and that clearly pulls it toward the arguments of McBurney and Hurlbert.
This case, made simple:
The states and the federal government have joined in a modern movement to make government more transparent by passing open-records laws, usually called "freedom of information acts." Very few of the states, however, have restrictions in their records laws that open them only to citizens of those states. That limitation has led to a constitutional controversy, over whether the national Constitution prohibits states from treating their citizens more favorably than they do outsiders in access to records generated by state agencies.
That limitation is included in a Virginia state law that dates to 1968. That law was upheld by a federal appeals court, based in Richmond, Virginia, on the theory that it did not interfere with any constitutional right of non-Virginians to engage in activity of a kind that unites the nation in commercial or civic harmony, and did not seek to regulate any activity that is economic in nature — or at least did so only in a minimal way.
Two non-Virginians have taken the dispute to the Supreme Court. One was denied access to records of a child support arrangement he had with his former wife; he had formerly lived in Virginia. The other was a businessman who was denied access to real property tax assessment records that one of his business clients wanted. The Court agreed to hear their claims that two, and possibly, three provisions in the Constitution are violated by such denials, based on where the records-seekers live. In deciding the dispute, the Supreme Court may be led back to America's Constitutional Convention, and some of the nation-building ideas that the Founders applied then.


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The old maxim "change is good" begrudgingly sits alongside its counterpart "change is hard." And while my initial experience with FIFA 12 tended to associate more with the latter, I found myself pleasantly surprised and coming around to believe that change is–in fact–a good thing.
It won't be long into your time with FIFA 12 until you notice that it has changed dramatically. This year, EA Sports has delivered an all-together more tactical and elegant experience with game-changing features in key areas across the pitch. And while EA Sports could have easily built-upon FIFA 11 by just updating the teams and squads as many annual sports franchises do (and believe me at first I really wish they had), the developers chose to overhaul some of the core gameplay mechanics that the franchise has relied upon for years, and it works.
On the surface, FIFA 12 still retains the sensational fluidity and high level production values the series is known for; you still have the coveted exclusive licenses, real players, teams and leagues. The detailed level of animation is still top-notch, and it all comes together to give you the most authentic football experience you could have from home.
However, you really start noticing the changes when you take control of a defender and experience what the game is like off the ball. What you'll discover right away is a more authentic, tactical, and physical defensive game than last year's offering, that will cause even the most veteran FIFA players to rethink their approach entirely. And it's not until you stop playing FIFA 12 as if it were FIFA 11 in a pretty new dress that you'll start to appreciate that fact.
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And what about that pretty new dress? Well, first off FIFA 12 doesn't look all too different from last year–which isn't really a bad thing. Load the game and apart from EA Sports' continuing attempt to further "ESPNize" the presentation, not a whole lot has changed visually.
You may notice that slight improvements to the lighting and player likenesses over last year's effort, which is expected of series with yearly releases. Other than that, you would be forgiven for mistaking last year's effort for this one, but it isn't the changes in appearance–or lack thereof–that provide the significant alterations. Instead, the changes are felt in the gameplay and right when you lace up those boots you'll feel the difference.
Probably the most accurate description of FIFA 12's engine would be that it is 'heavier.' From the reduced player sprint speeds, to the weight of the ball, the new physics and collision detection provides an overriding weightiness to gameplay.
In previous FIFA titles a slide or standing tackle would activate a handful of scripted animations, now there are no set animations, so to speak. Instead players' body parts react to collisions depending on the position, direction and force of the impact.
What this means is that while on defense, pressing a button and reaching out for an attacker's shoulder will cause the defender to stretch his hand out, reducing his speed in order to get close and get stuck in with a tackle. Similarly, a sliding tackle might miss the ball, but catch the attacker's back leg, messing up his stride.
It all translates to a more physical game that requires players to think about their offensive and defensive tactics.
As an attacker–unless you're Wayne Rooney or Didier Drogba–trying to muscle through a crowd of defenders is probably a bad idea. Not only do you have to protect the ball from marauding defenders, you have to think about all the shoulders that are going to knock you about and slow you down.
As a defender, the implementation of the new Player Impact Engine is even more significant because you need to think about how to not only use your feet, but you'll also have to be mindful of where you put yourself because every inch of every leg is sensitive to being fouled. Clip a runner in the box and you've just gone from hero to villain by conceding that crucial penalty.
And while in past FIFA titles it may have been a viable option to overcome defenders with pure speed or play the long-ball down the pitch (we're looking at you, Chelsea), the new Player Impact Engine definitely makes for a more realistic experience, requiring you to work around obstacles and mix up play. Overall, it's a great addition–but it's not without its quirks.
The referees are, at times, not up to detecting the new found physicality of the game and the calls can be maddeningly inconsistent. They don't call fouls enough, and the collision detection is a little lacking at times due to the increased physicality of the new impact engine. To be fair though, this is more the exception than the rule and doesn't detract from the overall improvements the new physics engine provides.
A Big Piece of P.I.E.
While the Player Impact Engine (P.I.E) does its fair share to force you to reconsider your approach to FIFA 12 in general, the addition of the overhauled defensive system will make you rethink how you tackle as well.
What the new tackling system does is take away the ability to hold the pressure button in order to zero in on the ball and effortlessly dispossess it from the attacker. In FIFA 12, while you can still hold down the button to close in on an attacker, the game sets up an invisible wall–stopping you short of the ball–requiring players to hit the tackle button at the opportune moment, or slide in with a slide tackle. Does this make defending more difficult? Sure it does, but it also makes it that much more intense, and altogether satisfying.
Simply speaking, manual tackling is tough, miss a tackle and you're likely to get burned, but hang in there because you will get used to it. It works well, and once mastered you'll feel a greater sense of defensive achievement than ever before.
The changes with the gameplay at first make it feel like the defense now has more of an advantage, but with the right moves and tactics, skilled players can exploit even greater attacking opportunities as well.
In With the Nou
While everything mentioned above greatly contributes to FIFA 12 feeling different, it's far from the only tweaks EA Sports have delivered. The difficulty level has been severely cranked up and player AI has seen vast improvements–meaning Barcelona will play their famous brand of Tiki-Taka football in the famed Camp Nou stadium, while AC Milan will look to find the talismanic Zlatan Ibrahimovic near goal. Even though this type of feature can seem subtle and more of an under the hood change, it's one that helps push FIFA 12 towards a more realistic and improved experience.
As for the audio, this year Martin Tyler is joined by Alan Smith in the commentator's box. And while Smith performs admirably, longtime commentator and outspoken Scottish rogue, Andy Gray, is definitely missed.
Career Mode has seen a number of tweaks as well, including an updated user interface requiring managers to make tough decisions while keeping the board happy. Players will now become disenfranchised due to a lack of playing time and therefore demand to move on if they don't. There is even a fleshed out scouting and youth-team feature that can be tinkered with, as well as a more realistic and engaging transfer system.
Online, FIFA 12 really shines this year with the introduction of a new "Head to Head Seasons" mode. Head to Head Seasons focuses on you, your season, and your division. There are 10 divisions to progress through, with 10 games per season to try to get promoted (and avoid relegation). Throw in various cup competitions along the way and you have a truly dynamic online experience. Add to the list the returning and popular Be a Pro Mode, and Pro Clubs, and FIFA 12 really offers a lot of depth online.
FIFA 12 isn't a complete reinvention of the wheel that many may have expected (and I'm not sure FIFA fans really want it to be), but this year's additions cannot be written off as mere updates. Rather than attempt to cash-in and rest on its laurels, EA Sports chose the brave route this year in steering the series in a slightly different direction, and it pays dividends.
While FIFA 12 may suffer the occasional oddness, refereeing hiccups and steep learning curve in the beginning, it is an altogether polished experience that delivers an authentic tempo and improves upon past FIFA titles in every way thanks to incredible gameplay, amazing production values and a wealth of game modes. While the changes to FIFA 12 may seem hard to adapt to for many fans at first, by sticking with it and realizing what EA is attempting to offer, football fans will go from skeptics to believers, and realize that change is indeed hard, but good.
Final Score: 9 out of 10
(This game was reviewed on the Xbox 360 on a copy provided by EA)
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71% Say Government Hasn't Been Tough Enough On Wall Street
71% Say Government Should Let Big Troubled Banks Fail
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1* How closely have you followed recent news
reports about the JPMorgan Chase bank?
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the federal government's current oversight of the banking industry – excellent,
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oppose more government regulation of the U.S. financial system?
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Should the government let the banks go out of business or find a way to keep
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6* If the federal government provides
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company be replaced?
Is the federal government more concerned with making Wall Street firms
profitable or making sure the U.S. financial system works well for all
8* Who benefited more
from the government bailouts of the financial industry – Wall Street or the
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9* Has the federal
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A successful project taking place at the Fitzwilliam has been giving work opportunities to local young people.
This series of work placements at the Fitzwilliam has been enabled by the Future Jobs Fund, an initiative that will have funded over 100,000 jobs by the end of March 2011. The scheme, aimed at 18-24 year olds who have been out of work for six months, is taking place in institutions across the country, including the East of England, and offers young people crucial work experience that will build their confidence and prepare them for the wider world of work.
"The evidence showed that young people had been particularly hard hit by the recession in terms of getting job opportunities", explains Hazel Courtley, Partnerships Manager at MLA Renaissance East of England. "Future Jobs is all about trying to address this by setting up these short term job opportunities for young people, so they can get a foot in the door, acquire skills and enrich their CVs - hopefully to help them get jobs in the future."
At the Fitzwilliam, each young person is provided with a mentor, and given a work plan taking into account their existing strengths and designed to provide new challenges and development opportunities. The length of individual placements ranges from six to eighteen months, and those on the scheme were involved in a diverse number of activities. "One of the things the museum is doing is to prepare the young people to apply for jobs in different sectors, for example helping them look at how you fill out application forms, interview preparation, looking at their CVs - all those sorts of things that will stand them in good stead" says Hazel Courtley.
Feedback from the scheme has been "incredibly positive", says Matt Dobbin of Discovery East, who has been evaluating the project. Participants are being encouraged to share their opinions online through diary entries, pictures and forum use. "It's been a really productive experience on both sides, and the feedback has been that for young people, it's really opening their eyes to a totally different sector. This will raise awareness of the concept of giving people short term jobs and a chance to gain experience, and that it can benefit on both sides a huge amount."
One young person on a Technician Building Services placement at the Fitzwilliam describes his time at the Museum as "amazing - the only fault is that it's going too fast! I never thought I'd enjoy waking up early in the morning and going to work, but I actually do look forward to getting up in the morning and starting my day."
Another participant, who is on a Museum Assistant placement at the National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket, says "I didn't think it would be this much fun and I didn't think I'd have quite so many different things to do. I think it will help me get a job anywhere really because there are so many different aspects. I've learnt about business running, promoting, I've worked in the shop - so I feel quite confident that I could go and work at pretty much anywhere."
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The US$63 million (HK$491M) investment is a response to demand from the financial services and cloud services sectors
HONG KONG — November 9, 2011 — Equinix Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX, news, filings), a provider of global data center services, today announced the opening of the first phase of its second International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Hong Kong. The new IBX data center, called HK2, was built to meet the increasing demand for premium colocation and interconnection data center services, particularly from financial services organizations and cloud service providers operating in the city. HK2 represents an investment of US$63 million and extends Platform Equinix™ to a total of 99 data centers, across 38 strategic markets around the world.
Located near the existing HK1 IBX data center in the western part of the New Territories region, the first phase of HK2, an investment of US$20 million (HK$156M), will provide 450 cabinet equivalents, expanding to 1,450 at full build-out. With direct fiber connection to HK1, the HK2 IBX data center builds on Equinix's existing rich network density, providing customers with a wide range of connectivity options. Major networks operating within HK2 include PCCW and Wharf T&T.
"Commercial growth and the continuation of Hong Kong's dominance as a financial hub in Asia are key drivers of demand for data center services in the local market," said Alex Tam, managing director, Equinix Greater China. "Data centers are an essential part of the city's infrastructure and the opening of HK2 ensures the supply of data center availability needed to support the sustainable growth of traditional pillar industries such as financial services and trading."
The HK2 facility will also meet an increase in demand for data center capacity driven by the appetite for cloud computing in the market. With its world leading broadband penetration and excellent international connectivity, coupled with good policy governance, Hong Kong is rapidly becoming a desired location for cloud service providers. HK2 will offer cloud service providers access to multiple networks, which is critical to enhance application performance and ensure redundancy. BrightHost, a leading supplier of high-capacity cloud infrastructure and web hosting solutions, deployed its cloud offering within Equinix's HK1 data center earlier this year to meet its blue-chip customers' requirement for a presence in Asia.
In addition to having access to a carrier neutral, dense network environment, businesses deployed in HK2 will be able to enjoy close proximity and access to a vast ecosystem of partners and potential customers, enabling them to maximize business opportunities within the data center.
The HK2 IBX data center offers a variety of premium data center services including colocation, interconnection and peering and direct cross connect between networks. Customers will also have access to the Equinix Marketplace, giving them the ability to discover new partners and locate services where they are required.
"Hong Kong is a key location for regional and global businesses that are keen to expand operations and build business ecosystems in this important financial market. Our global reach also means that customers looking to enter new markets can do so confidently, knowing they will receive the same level of service. Growing our global platform allows us to meet customers' on going needs for premium, well-connected, data center services," added Tam.
HK2 is the third new IBX data center to be opened by Equinix in the Asia-Pacific region this year as part of its plans to expand Platform Equinix in the region. Earlier this year the company opened IBX data centres in Sydney (SY3) and Tokyo (TY3) – the third Equinix IBX data centres in both cities.
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Images from the first three weeks of Pope Francis' pontificate have been largely positive, if not downright jovial: The new pontiff wearing simple vestments, kissing babies, and embracing adorers in full-on, two-armed hugs.
With such effusive imagery, comparisons to other genial and jovial popes are already abounding. The one comparison being talked about in somewhat hushed tones, as if not to curse the moment?
Francis' possible similarities with Pope John XXIII, the pope of the late 1950s and early 1960s and a beloved figure among some U.S. Catholics for his decision to open a 1962-65 worldwide meeting of bishops to consider nearly all aspects of the faith.
"This is like being back in the '60s and John XXIII," Sr. Janice Farnham, a member of the Religious of Jesus and Mary and a retired professor of church history at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, told NCR Monday.
"For some of us, we never thought we were going to get back here again. It's quite fascinating and attractive."
Jesuit Fr. John O'Malley, a prominent U.S. church historian who has written extensively on that meeting of bishops, known as the Second Vatican Council, likewise said Francis' actions so far are "projecting precisely" the image of the church imagined by the council..
O'Malley pointed specifically to Francis' decision to host last week's Holy Thursday evening services at a Roman youth detention center instead of St. Peter's Basilica.
Bending to his knees as he washed the feet of twelve young adults — including two women and two Muslims — one-by-one March 28 at Rome's Casal del Marmo prison, the pope also kissed their feet and told the youth he was at their service as their priest and bishop.
"This is a symbol, it is a sign — washing your feet means I am at your service," the pope told the youth during a brief, off the cuff homily.
"Help one another," Francis continued. "This is what Jesus teaches us. This is what I do. And I do it with my heart. I do this with my heart because it is my duty; as a priest and bishop I must be at your service."
"The council was about reconciliation — with non-Western cultures, with 'the modern world,' with non-Catholic Christians, and with the non-Christian Other," said O'Malley, a professor of theology at Georgetown University and author of What Happened at Vatican II.
"Washing the feet of the two Muslims was a gesture of love, as he himself told them, but also a gesture of reconciliation," wrote O'Malley in an email.
"In that regard, I think of Pope John XXIII's hope for Vatican II that he expressed in his allocution to the council on its opening day, Oct. 11, 1962. He wanted the council to show that the church was 'the loving mother of all, benign, patient, full of goodness and mercy toward the children separated from her,'" O'Malley continued.
"It seems to me that through word and gesture Pope Francis is projecting precisely that image of the church."
Yet, despite the obviously positive optics from the first few days of Francis' papacy, each of three church historians who spoke to NCR about the new pontiff's impact said what we see so far are words, style, and symbols.
The question remaining, they said, is just what changes the pontiff will make on issues of substance — like in the appointment of bishops, or his handling of the Vatican bureaucracy.
"One of my thoughts as a historian is that this is all lovely, but it's all about style," said Farnham,
"When substance begins — and there will be substance, for sure — then we'll see where all these people who are so enamored of the style, including me, will be."
As focus on Francis shifts from his style to how he handles issues of substance, another church historian said he was waiting to see especially how the new pope makes decisions.
"We had two top-down papacies in terms of decision making," said Christopher Bellitto, a widely cited church historian and the chair of the history department at Kean University, Union, N.J., referring to the styles of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
One question, said Bellitto, is whether Francis will allow more decision making in the church to come from a more local level, perhaps from national bishops' conferences.
With the 50th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council in 2015, Bellitto said he hopes Francis will "call for a worldwide discussion on how we're doing in implementing Vatican II, but allow that discussion to take place beginning at the lowest level…and then bubble up, so that the ideas flow from the periphery to the center."
Noting that both Pope Francis' namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, and the head of his Jesuit religious order, St. Ignatius of Loyola, were seen in their time as outside the mainstream, Bellitto said "if reform is going to take place, the best ideas bubble from the periphery and come to the center."
"When Francis of Assisi showed up, he was on the periphery," Bellitto said. "They thought he was some crazy itinerant preacher. Ignatius is investigated by the Inquisition. Those are perfect examples of reform coming from outside, from the periphery to the center."
Farnham said that no matter what directions Francis chooses to take on issues of substance, he may be looking to move quickly. Noting that Bergoglio was elected pope at age 76 and John XXIII at age 77, Farnham said "I'm sure [Francis] knows he is not going to be around for long."
"And so what he will do, he will have to do quickly," she continued.
[Joshua J. McElwee is an NCR staff writer. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/joshjmac.]


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Close to 200 makers generously shared their talent, wit, passion and projects. Over 250 Park Day School parents + unaffiliated helpers took shifts to power everything from hands-on making booths (e.g. Nerdy Derby, rockets, Swap, Learn to Solder) to parking to tickets and registration. 95 exhibits offered hands-on making or interaction. Sponsors gave in their own way—enabling budget for the jaw-dropping installations, or donating in-kind with infrastructure and supplies. A core team of 10 or so plugged away months in advance to push this baby to fruition.
Together we brought together 7,000 happy people on the combined Park Day School + Studio One Art Center campuses. Whether working or just experiencing the show, it felt like most people were experiencing something new, and receiving some bit of re-charge and inspiration. Thanks for not just coming, but for contributing, and for making this day with us.
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Adult Foster Care is defined as a home setting in the community for adults who are unable to live independently due to physical, emotional, developmental or mental health impairments. The home can provide up to 24 hour supervision for 1 to 4 residents. (5 if caring for elderly residents). Residents receive meals, support, supervision and some assistance with personal care and living skills as needed. Adult Foster Care homes are licensed by the State of Minnesota under Rule 203 and Rule 245A.
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Traditional providers receive a monthly minimum room and board payment set by the State. A Difficulty of Care (DOC) rating may be set based on the required level of care. The payment is usually a combination of the client's:
Residents who have the financial resources to pay can negotiate a fee with the provider.
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In a scheme, each point is a generic point of its closure. In particular each closed point is a generic point of itself (the set containing it only), but that's perhaps of little interest. A point that's not closed, is probably more interesting, and there are no such thing in ordinary varieties.
What I have been wondering about is that there must be a good reason they are called generic points. Here are what I have got so far:
- A non-closed generic point is not closed, so it cannot be cut out from the scheme by any polynomial equations in any affine patch, and thus it does not posses any extra algebraic property that's not shared by others.
- A non-closed generic point is not a specialization of the scheme.
Are these correct? If not, what's the right intuition? Also, can the following statement be make more precise using the language of generic points?
- A degree $n$ and a generic degree $m$ algebraic curves intersect at $n \cdot m$ distinct points in $\mathbb{P}^2$ (the planar Bezout's theorem)
- Common solutions of $n$ polynomial systems in $n$ variables with generic complex coefficients in $\mathbb{C}^\ast$ are all isolated. (corollary of the Cheater's homotopy theorem)
- The number of common isolated solutions of $n$ polynomial systems in $n$ variables with generic complex coefficients in $\mathbb{C}^\ast$ equals the mixed volume of the Newton polytopes of the system. (Bernshtein's theorem)
- Generic points on a nonreduced scheme have isosingular structure (i.e., at all such points the local ring fail to be reduced in exactly the same way).
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Why aren't corrections implemented immediately on the digital data as soon as they are entered in the errata? Maps I understand that are printed and you have stock but digital data is well, digital. There are specific corrections which are permanent and should be easily integrated into the files. Other than that the maps are nice and useful. I would also like a background to the route like in the paper maps. ///////////// Response from Adventure Cycling: We are still working out the process for how often the digital data files will be republished. Theoretically, it should be easy to make changes and republish these digital files more often than the paper maps. In reality, there are over 100 (and growing) files to keep updated while still maintaining the paper maps and our other tasks. At this time, if we become aware of a safety issue on a route or of a mandatory detour (such as the mudslides on the California coast) we will update the files and republish them.


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Novartis Blood Pressure Medication Runs into Trouble
by Gary Pepper, M.D.
Editor, Metabolism.com
In 2007 a new type of blood pressure lowering medication was brought to market by Novartis Pharmaceutical Company. This medication by the brand name Tekturna (aliskiran) works by blocking hormones that make up a circuit from the kidney to the blood vessels know as the RAAS system. This mechanism is distinct from all other blood pressure lowering medications available. By working via a completely novel pathway to lower blood pressure doctors were given another potent weapon in the war on high blood pressure. A second medication, Valturna, which combines an established blood pressure medication with Tekturna, was released by Novartis to the public in 2009. These drugs have been extremely popular due to their effectiveness and apparent freedom from serious side effects.
A warning about this class of drug was issued by Novartis, 2 weeks ago when it was forced to end the Altitude drug study due to apparent unforeseen complications in patients using Tekturna and Valturna. The study found a small but significant increase in stroke in diabetics with renal disease who were using these drugs. Although the group of patients in the Altitude study are up to 12 times more likely to develop stroke or heart attack under normal circumstances, Novartis had no choice but to end the study and issue a warning to the health care community about limiting the use of these drugs.
In my own practice I have found Tekturna and Valturna to be extremely effective and well tolerated. A survey of my colleagues revealed the same findings. Diabetes and high blood pressure very commonly occur together and national guidelines stress the need for excellent blood pressure control for diabetics to help prevent heart, kidney and eye complications of this disease. For doctors treating diabetics who recognize these patients as particularly high risk, having to significantly cut back or eliminate the use of Tekturna and Valturna is creating major concerns. Within the past week I have had to counsel numerous individuals about these issues and the solution is far from easy. For instance, one man with diabetes and early kidney disease and heart disease, with borderline high blood pressure despite using 4 different types of blood pressure medication including Tekturna has to decide with me, which is the greatest risk, going off the medication resulting in a rise in his blood pressure or continuing a drug which may pose a risk of its own.
These discussions are going on in doctor's offices throughout the country with no good solution in sight. The only certainty is a flood of ads by lawyers which begin, "Have you ever been on Tekturna or Valturna….".


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Thursday 14 August 2008
Easy as Vegetable Pie
As I have said before I don't really like making pastry much. It is too fiddly and prone to falling apart. But I know there are some who dislike it for its high fat content. A former housemate of mine used to make a pastry from my A Vegetarian Feast cookbook (by Vikki Leng) because it was lower in fat than most pastries.
This pastry has been on my mind for a while because I have fond memories of it. I was inspired to share the recipe by Helen from Food Stories who has been experimenting with low fat pastry. What's not to love about a pastry that is not likely to fall apart, doesn't need blind baking and tastes good without being full of butter. So I finally made it last week.
If you expect this to taste like a melting buttery pastry, you will be disappointed. But if you want to try a pastry that is substantial and chewy, that resists the sharp knife rather than crumbling under it, and that is more scone than tart, you will find it pleasing. And it is not just me who enjoyed it. We hadn't finished our first piece of pie when E was asking that I make this more often.
This is a great healthy pie. Easy to make and packed with vegetables. The vegetables could be changed according to whim and season. My main problem was that our pies were a bit lacking in seasoning and vegetables can be too sweet, especially pumpkin. But this is easily fixed and will not dissuade me from making them again. These pies are great winter comfort food, especially when the pastry presents so few challenges.
Vegetable Cheese Pie
(adapted from A Vegetarian Feast by Vikki Leng)
Serves 8
Vegetable Cheese Filling:
1 kg pumpkin, peeled and diced
1 carrot, scrubbed and diced
1 onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
250g cauliflower (I used about 500g)
1 cup (155g) green peas
¼ cup (60ml) water
1 tsp stock powder
freshly ground pepper
sea salt
2 handfuls grated tasty cheese
seeds of choice for sprinkling (I used white and black sesame seeds)
Wholemeal Pastry:
2 cups (250g) wholemeal flour
½ tsp baking powder
30g butter, melted
1 tbsp oil
½ cup (125ml) water (or water drained from the vegetables)
additional flour
To prepare the filling, place all vegetables, water, and stock powder in a microwave proof bowl cover and cook in microwave on high for about 25 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes to check if vegetables cooked through. Vikki suggests alternatively boiling the vegetables in a bit more water but I think pumpkin holds its shape better when you cook it in the microwave.
She also advises you cool and drain the vegetables once they are ready. A nice idea for those organised souls with time. I am sure cold vegetables are easier to drain than hot ones. But hot vegetables can be drained with a slotted spoon, oven mitts and preferably a helpful partner. I kept some of my excess water for the pastry. Set aside to cool while you prepare the pastry.
To make the pastry: Mix flour and baking powder in a medium bowl. Melt butter in a small bowl (in microwave) or saucepan (on stovetop) and add oil and water. Mix liquid mixture and flour mixture to make a stiff dough. Mine was so stiff I added a couple of spoons of extra water till it was pliable. Briefly knead dough on a lightly floured surface till smooth (about 30-60 seconds).
Cut dough into two pieces and roll out to about 12mm or ½ inch thickness (that is Vikki's suggested thickness but I think mine was thinner). She suggests lining two family sized flan tins but I don't have anything of the sort and just used 2 x greased 20cm diameter cake tins. This means my pastry only went halfway up the side and was more rustic than uniform but it still looked ok to my uncritical eye. (See photo above.)
Pre-bake pie crusts in a moderately hot oven (190 C or 350 F) for about 10 minutes. The pastry cooks only ever so slightly which is plenty for this type.
Now that the vegetable filling has cooled a little, check and adjust seasoning. Divide up filling between the pie crusts. Don't worry if the filling is still hot, it will be fine. Sprinkle with grated cheese and seeds. Return to the oven for 30-40 minutes.
The recipe says to serve topped with parley and tomato slices. I preferred to serve it with a little salad and topped with some tomato sauce.
I put one of my pie crusts in the freezer after it had baked for 10 minutes and placed the filling in a separate container so it was an easy dinner to assemble in the week after work. Just make sure you drain the filling again after defrosting.
On the stereo:
Roxy Music: Roxy Music
18 comments:
- Anonymous14 August 2008 at 23:33
Looks wonderful! I'm also not a fan of pastry-making--never seems to work out for me. But this sounds a little more reasonable. And I like the fact that it looks rustic, perfect for a veggie pie!
ReplyDelete thanks ricki - rustic is just right for me as I am not a smooth around the edges type :-)
thanks Holler - yes I like a pastry that lasts a while - even less work! And E is having a Roxy Music revival at the moment - but I'm not complaining (even though I never listened to it when young)
thanks Lucy - yes they were choc-full of vegetables. I am reading Trick or Treat by Kerry Greenwood which has me hankering after good bread because it is a baker detective novel
thanks Vegancowgirl - hope you like the pastry - you are right about it being easy to veganise - in fact I think I might have used nuttalex (vegan margarine)- Anonymous16 August 2008 at 20:20
I am totally loving this! 30g butter and a little bit of oil is hardly anything compared with regular pastry. I totally know what you mean about not expecting it to be like full fat pastry but I really enjoy the chewy texture and the wholemeal flavour of healthier pastry. This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for so I will give it a go!
ReplyDelete - Anonymous19 August 2008 at 07:36
Fabulous - this pie looks so tasty Johanna (and there are so many vegetables packed in there!).
I like the idea of part butter, part oil in the pastry. Healthy but tasty. thanks Bee - 'soul food' is a big compliment - we seem to be thinking alike with your lovely vegan pastry recently that I must try!
thanks Lisa - I will be interested to hear what you think of the pastry
thanks Sophie - I really liked the idea of a pie that was mostly healthy pastry and vegies - glad you do too
thanks Ashley - glad to oblige - hope you enjoy this one (in my book it is suggested for a few different pies so am sure it will be adaptable to other fillings)- Anonymous22 August 2008 at 21:04
Looks fabulous... and I think those meals we invent out of necessity are the most satisfying, too!
Thanks for dropping by. I love hearing from you. Please share your thoughts and questions. Annoyingly the spammers are bombarding me so I have turned on the pesky captcha code (refresh to find an easy one if you don't like the first one)


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Okay, you guys, so new theory: The centrifugal force of Mindy is too great to resist. There is nothing except Mindy. Which is awesome, in the sense that this is called The Mindy Project. But it's not, in the sense that there are a bunch of other characters running around this thing.
And it's particularly not when Mindy is out of the office for the day, which made for the lamest episode to date for me. We're eight in, it had to happen sooner or later, yes. But I am starting to think it's just too hard to compete with Mindy's spectacularness. Morgan comes close in weirdness, and I still love Danny when he's with Mindy. But, man, I'm starting to not care about all these other people. Like, really not care. They're too sane and normal, which, yay in real life, not so much in sitcom-land.
We started strong because Mindy was spending the night at the hospital, bantering with Doris the cleaning lady. (Maybe Doris can become a regular? Loved her.) Mindy, as usual, made it all about her own imagined indignation as Doris expressed sympathy for having to spend the night at work and not go home. "I'm not so lucky," Doris added. "When I don't go home my cat pees in my husband's slippers." Mindy replied: "Okay, Doris, I get it, you're married. Good for you."
Next, Dr. Shulman randomly retired from the practice, which had "Transition Episode" written all over it. Typical sitcom growing pains: Pruning extraneous supporting characters and hopefully making for more interesting dynamics in the future. For the record, it's true: Danny, Jeremy, and Mindy running the practice as partners is inherently more interesting. It could even amp up Danny and Jeremy's characters a bit. So at least that's promising.
As usual, Mindy proceeded to be kick-ass at her job despite her personal … oddities, and continued to be the funniest person around by a mile. In this case, she did it in the same scene. "Lauren, please do not give me printouts from Web MD," she told one very pregnant patient. "It's like bringing a recipe to a restaurant and saying, 'Here, cook this.'" She then completely disarmed Lauren's insecurities by telling her how scary pregnancy was — but that she had nothing to worry about because her health was perfect. I cannot explain how much I want Mindy to be my gynecologist at this point.
The main conflict of this episode then emerged: The midwife practice one floor up was swooping in to take Dr. Shulman's old clients. And Mindy had the day off to spend with her girlfriends, so she was MIA for most of the showdown. A funny concept — "Midwives with attitude," as Morgan called them — though not as hilarious in practice as I'd hoped (probably because Mindy wasn't around). Many of the jokes about holistic practice were ho-hum, though I loved Morgan's "You want rocks? I'm going to a quarry after work. I'll have rocks coming out of your frickin' eyes."
Things didn't turn around until — you guessed it — Mindy came charging back to the office, feeling guilty for missing the action (and stung by her own patient's defection). "Some weird half-doctors are trying to patient-jack me," she told her friends as they tried to enjoy a sample sale. She requested a human changing room to get out of the top she was considering ("don't judge my bra"). Then she charged back to the office, ready for some Jerry Maguire–style client-wrangling.
She, of course, delivered (in a way not unlike last week, when she gave her triumphant sex-ed speech at the high school, not that I'm complaining). Suddenly, in contrast to Mindy, even the midwife practitioners were funnier: "That gong was a gift from me to myself for a particularly rough life." There was that strangely sexual vibe that seems to permeate so many of Mindy's interactions: "I'm sure you'd love to educate me, all afternoon, just over and over, making me learn about midwifery." (That last word is always pronounced midwiffery.) There was the midwife guy's lame rejoinder: "We have never been to the Coachella Valley Musical Festival." There was Mindy's parting shot, "No, Diana, I'm holding onto this mallet." There was the midwife guy's bonus brushing away of Mindy's eyelash and her, "Okay, that was kinda hot. But whatever. No more stealing patients."
What I'm trying to say is that Mindy is really funny, and anyone else around her gets funnier instantly. Not sure about the rest of these folks just yet.
Oh, except for one: Josh. Is it just because we only ever see him with her, or is our little mini–Matt Damon–with-glasses really her match? Because I didn't laugh more in this episode than I did when he showed up to visit her at the hospital in the end and saw the weird Indianapolis Jazz Fest Poster, and dropped a casual, "Indianapolis has a jazz fest? Gross."
If you want to talk more Mindy, follow me on Twitter: @jmkarmstrong


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Despite the headline-grabbing news coming from the Gitdumt'en anti-pipeline site, most First Nations living near the LNG pipeline route support the project.
At least 20 First Nations from Fort St. John to Kitimat have signed agreements with LNG Canada, Donald MacLachlan, media officer with the First Nations LNG Alliance, told Black Press Media.
READ MORE: RCMP arrest 14 people in northern B.C. over anti-LNG pipeline protest
Chief Rene Skin of the Skin Tyee near Burns Lake said his First Nation was among the first to lend its support to LNG.
"We've always been in support of the pipeline. We voted together," Skin said. "Lots to do with jobs, up and coming housing – people will be able to start their own companies. For years to come, there will be a lot of benefits."
Skin couldn't offer many specifics on the benefits, which are detailed in the confidential term sheet that was negotiated with LNG Canada.
In general, the agreements signed with the First Nations near the pipeline are worth millions of dollars, MacLachlan said, including $620 million in conditional contracting and employment opportunities, and another $400 million in contracting opportunities for local and Indigenous business.
Skin Tyee band councillor Helen Michelle said a long process of negotiation between Skin Tyee members and hereditary chiefs eventually led to an agreement with Coastal GasLink, the company behind the project that would transport natural gas to Kitimat.
"We discussed it thoroughly and we struggled with it," Michelle said. "We agreed upon it for our future generations. No other chiefs speak for us or our territory. We speak for ourselves."
Burns Lake First Nation Chief Dan George, who is also the First Nations LNG Alliance chair, has said there are hereditary chiefs who support the project.
"Helen Michelle and Skin Tyee are not alone," he said. "Other First Nations such as the Haisla and Kitselas have declared their support for LNG."
Karen Ogen-Toews, CEO of the First Nations LNG Alliance, said amidst the media coverage, regular people from the Wet'suwet'en community are caught in the middle.
"The backlash Wet'suwet'en people are facing, whether they are for or against the project, is devastating," Ogen-Toews said.
"Our leaders, elected or hereditary, are advancing what they believe is right, and as such all deserve respectful treatment. Social-media campaigns led by non-Indigenous groups are simply not contributing to a solution."
The activity at the Gitdumt'en blockade camp near the Morice River Bridge, south of Houston, has been trending on Twitter under the hashtag #unistotencamp.
"There is no doubt that the hereditary leadership has some responsibility for land and natural resources within our territory," Ogen-Toews added. "At the same time, the elected leadership has responsibility for our people and the external affairs of their First Nation."


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Seven tips for bargain beach vacationing with friends — Have a bargain beach vacation with friends by going at the tail end of the season. [Mighty Bargain Hunter]
Skip Commercial Banks! How Cash Only Living Can Work — To make cash only living work for you, use an envelope budgeting system. [The Digerati Life]
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On the Road Again? 7 Ways to Stay Connected to Your Kids — When you are on the road, stay connected to your kids by planning times to call. [Parenting Squad]
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